*The following is part of a larger series discussing the ongoing development of PoliTree, an attempted political-compass killer which has been way too long in the making. To find out more, visit the introduction. *
April was an unexpectedly productive month for the project. Starting with the minor changes:
- Post-Left branch got reworked into New Left
- References for the majority of branches were redone
- The Monarchist branch was completed
- The “schools of thought” idea has been implemented; branch pages have been given a section listing real-world ideological currents
- Cleaned out junk files and properly organized the resources folder
The two major changes for this month is the overhaul to the manual/FAQ and the progress made on the filter questions.
Beginning with the manual:
- The link to the quiz itself has been removed, as it was causing too much confusion. The quiz is long outdated and it remaining accessible misleads people into thinking otherwise.
- I’ve begun rolling the manual into a GitLab wiki-page. It’ll be easier to edit and will create less clutter to the site itself.
- Another reason I am doing this is because one of the long-term plans is to rewrite the HTML from scratch once the methodology is fully laid out. Currently the code is rather messy and chaotic.
- I may or may not self-host the rewritten site, depending on whether or not a static page (which GitLab offers) is a hindrance to the site.
The filter questions have been developed for both the Progressive and Proprietarian branches, and the layout should follow the below template:
As for other long-term goals, I’m planning to implement the metadata pages I was considering following the site’s overhaul. For now the main priority is finishing the filter questions.
Evangelical Christian, Marxist, and a bit of a Luddite. I run this blog as a way to compile my various theories and arguments spanning a wide variety of subjects from technology to politics.
